Identifier: artartistsofourt06cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ANDREA VESALIUS. FROM THE PICTURE BY EDOUARO HAMMAN. anecdotes, but he has also painted portraits and genre subjects. His Adrien Willaert ac-companying the Performance of a Mass of his own Composition before the Doge of Venice,is his most important picture: it is in the museum at Brussels. The Andrea Vesalius repre-sents the famous Belgian anatomist prefacing a dissection of the cadaver which he is aboutto undertake, by an act of devotion. The treatment of the subject is, as always with Ham-
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< Q-I cc Hi I-co< UJ I H ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME, 313 man, purely dramatic, but the composition is skilful enough, and the artist has made a pic-turesque work out of slender material. Hamman has lived so long in Paris that he has beenawarded the honors of a place in the Luxembourg, where may be seen his picture of the boyCharles V. listening to Erasmus, who is reading to him. Although this work has the com-mon defect of nearly all so-called historical pictures, that it is made up as a show-piece, yetthe subject explains itself rather more easily than is generally the case, and the presence ofErasmus, a face and figure skilfully adapted from the portraits of Diirer and Holbein, servesto identify the scene. Jean-Baptiste Madou was born at Brussels in 1796, and died in Ms native city in 1877.He was a pupil of Francjois and of the Brussels Academy, but his circumstances obliged himto go into business, and later he was employed by the Belgian government in making maps.On the revi

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